Future Tense: The 20 Best Time-Travel Movies

Fire up your flux capacitor: we're flashing back to the greatest movies ever to skip through the space-time continuum

May 20, 2014

10. 'Time Bandits' (1981)

Terry Gilliam's relentlessly inventive time-travel caper stars a young boy and six dwarfs who have swiped a map of the universe and are using it to steal everything they can. Best cameos: Sean Connery as Agamemnon and John Cleese as a daffily aristocratic Robin Hood. God was played by the distinguished British actor Ralph Richardson, who got so into the role that he rejected some of his dialogue, telling Gilliam, "God wouldn't say that."